Re: Intro and gnopernicus question

["Willem van der Walt<willem top health gov za>" <willem top health gov za>]

Thanks a lot for these good pointers.
regards, Willem

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Peter Korn wrote:

> Hi Willem,
> 
> > For an application to be accessible it must be a GNOME 2.x application.
> > 
> > I am not sure what the accessible state of mozilla is. I know that it is
> > being worked on but I do not know whether the version you have is
> > accessible.
> > 
> > I do not think that recompiling will help make applications accessible.
> 
> Ummm... I'm sure what Padraig meant to say is that for an application to be
> accessible it must follow the rules of GNOME 2.x accessibility (like Java
> apps and StarOffice with the Java Access Bridge for GNOME).
> 
> The mozilla accessibility work touches lots of mozilla, and in order to keep
> the mozilla accessibility team working efficiently they have agreed with the
> overall mozilla engineering effort to do only periodic putbacks of their
> work.  They maintain a set of periodic builds on ftp.mozilla.org for your
> testing pleasure.  See
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/unix/ and also specifically
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/accessibility/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Korn
> Sun Accessibility team
> 
> 
> 
> > Willem van der Walt wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > Just to confirm, enabling the accessability key worked just as you said.
> > > Gnopernicus now speaks. Just one other question, do one need to
> > > recompile the standard applications like mozilla before they will speak?
> > > The things in the gnome desktop seems to talk, but none of the
> > > applications that i
> > > have tryed does.
> > > Most of them are not the very latest versions and are those that were
> > > installed
> > > by rpm from Redhat 9.
> > > TIA
> > > Willem
> > >
> > > On 25 Aug 2003, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi Willem:
> > >>
> > >>I hope you have made some progress since your email on Thursday.  Note
> > >>that Mario's information is correct, you need to "turn on" accessibility
> > >>support in order to successfully use gnopernicus.  You can check to see
> > >>if accessibility is enabled at the system level by typing
> > >>
> > >>gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>The reply should be 'true', if not, then you can turn this configuration
> > >>option on with the following command (please note the command below
> > >>wraps over multiple lines in this email, enter it as one line)
> > >>
> > >>gconftool-2 --set --type bool /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
> > >>true
> > >>
> > >>Once you've turned this "key" on, you will need to log out and back in.
> > >>
> > >>The information which Tatus forwarded concerns only the use of
> > >>"accessible login" work-in-progress, I suggest that you don't pay any
> > >>attention to that information yet since it doesn't directly impact what
> > >>you are doing now, it's only for people who want to make their graphical
> > >>login accessible, and as Brian indicated (who wrote the 'help'), that
> > >>feature is work-in-progress and requires considerable additional setup.
> > >>None of the information in that second email should be required in order
> > >>to use gnopernicus once you are successfully logged in.
> > >>
> > >>best regards,
> > >>
> > >>Bill Haneman
> > >>
> > >>
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